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Chapter 838: Li Mu's decision

Wang Jian's arrival is undoubtedly a big trouble for Li Mu.

Wang Jian himself is actually not a big trouble. The real trouble lies in the 100,000 Qin troops brought by Wang Jian.

Regarding this information, Yi Qusheng almost immediately expressed his opinion: "Aren't it just a hundred thousand Qin people? Let's wait for the arrival of these Qin people here and then defeat them!"

"Nonsense!" Li Mu shook his head and directly rejected Yi Qusheng's reckless suggestion.

War depends on your brain. If you are as reckless as Yiqusheng every time, then failure will be a matter of time sooner or later.

After scolding Yiqusheng, Li Mu looked around the generals present and found that everyone was not afraid of the large number of enemies. On the contrary, they all had a passionate fighting spirit on their faces.

Tu Xie said to Li Mu excitedly: "The Grand Governor is a person protected by the gods. As long as the gods can bring disaster to the Qin people, even if there are many Qin people, we will definitely be able to defeat them!"

Li Mu was stunned and then realized where the confidence of his subordinates came from.

In love, they do not believe in themselves, but in the thunder!

Li Mu suddenly felt a little unhappy.

But soon Li Mu suppressed this strange emotion in his heart, shook his head and said in a deep voice: "First of all, I want to repeat to you that the thunder of heaven is not a heavenly punishment, but a weapon. A kind of armor, bows, arrows, spears and even infantry that we often use are all a weapon, a weapon that can help us defeat powerful enemies that we often use, do you understand?"

As soon as Li Mu said this, the generals were not convinced at first, but looking at Li Mu's very serious expression, the feeling of not believing slowly faded.

I have been with Li Mu for so many years, and everyone knows that Li Mu may occasionally joke, but when he says something so seriously, these words must be very reliable and true.

Li Mu continued: "Since the thunder of the sky is a weapon, it must be consumed. I don't want to hide it from you. This Yiqu City alone has already consumed the existing thunder of the sky in the army very seriously. So if we face tens of thousands of Qin troops, these thunders will not be able to support such consumption at all. So this time it is impossible to rely on the power of the thunder to fight against the Qin army. Do you understand?"

Li Mu said this, but there was no reason why several generals from Zhao State who didn't understand? So one or two nodded one after another.

Such news was obviously not something they wanted to hear for these generals of Zhao State, so the atmosphere suddenly became a little dull.

Yiqiusheng was the most straightforward person among the people present, so after learning that he could not rely entirely on the thunder to defeat Qin State, he immediately frowned, but immediately stretched out: "But the Grand Commander, even if we cannot use the thunder to defeat the Qin State army, we can still use armored cavalry to defeat the Qin State!"

Yiqiusheng's words were immediately recognized by the generals present.

To be honest, before this, who knew what thunder was that what made these generals of Zhao State most confident was actually the armored cavalry of the Zhao army, or the border cavalry that the Zhao army was invincible.

However, Li Mu remained silent for a moment and chose to refuse: "No, this is too risky."

If Li Mu had a cavalry corps composed of 20,000 cavalrymen who were completely composed of the most elite cavalry among the border cavalry of Zhao State, then Li Mu really wanted to try out the weight of Wang Jian, the young master general of Qin State.

But the problem is that among the 20,000 people in Li Mu's hand, there were 8,000 Hunter cavalry, which undoubtedly gave the entire army a lot of discounts.

This does not mean that these Huns are not brave enough to fight, or that they do not perform well enough on horseback. The real problem is that these Huns' cavalry do not meet Li Mu's requirements.

The Huns' cavalry had never had any concept of an army in their minds. They had been messy when fighting. They followed their own generals and rushed around, shooting and then rushing around. They fought the battle with their heads and brains, and they had no discipline at all.

Discipline is a very important thing. In history, Maodun Shanyu, the pioneer of the Hun Empire, used whistle to train and strengthen the discipline of the Hun cavalry, so the Huns were able to rise rapidly in a short period of time and eventually become a super empire that could confront the Han Empire.

But the Huns are not the Huns in Maodun in history, and the Huns in Li Mu's hands are not the Hun cavalry with organization and chance under Maodun. It is actually quite difficult to train such a messy army. At least Li Mu has not seen hope of success yet.

Under such circumstances, Li Mu did not feel that he could fight against the 100,000 Qin army led by Wang Jian with the remaining cavalry troops of more than 10,000 yuan.

What's more, Wang Jian must have known that he would fight against Li Mu this time. As long as Wang Jian is not stupid, he will definitely target Li Mu's cavalry.

The worst thing is that since Li Mu never had any experience in confronting Wang Jian, and there was no case of Wang Jian leading troops alone against the cavalry for reference, Li Mu knew nothing about what tactics Wang Jian might use.

In this way, when you cannot "know the enemy", you will rashly fight a war with many enemies and few people. You will definitely not have any other results except the word "failure".

Li Mu made a very peaceful decision: "The Qin people's troops will have at least six days to reach here, so I ask you to complete the rest within four days and take away everything in the city, including wealth, materials and population as much as possible. By the fifth day, the Qin people will retreat directly northward and return to Shuofang and leave the empty shell of this Yiqu City to the Qin people."

As soon as Li Mu said this, all the generals of Zhao State present were stunned.

Yiqiusheng widened his eyes and couldn't help but say, "Governor, I heard it right away just now, are we going to retreat?"

Li Mu glanced at Yiqusheng and said, "Yes, Qin is now in a strong situation, so of course we have to retreat first. After returning to Shuofang County, we will take action when we see the opportunity."

After a pause, Li Mu glanced at the generals present with an extremely sharp look and said in a deep voice: "What, do anyone have any objections to the decision of this governor?"

Li Mu's eyes swept over, and everyone immediately lowered their heads, and no one dared to refute.

To be honest, after experiencing such victories, Li Mu's reputation among the Border Cavalry Legion has reached its peak, reaching a point where no one dares to imagine. If we must find an example, it would be like Zhao Dan's lofty reputation among the people of Zhao State.

Under such circumstances, who dares to oppose Li Mu's words, isn't that going to be tired of living?

Moreover, this behavior is not limited to Zhao**, but even the eight thousand cavalrymen who had just joined the Huns.

In addition to the reputation that Li Mu has gained over the years, another very important factor is the "thunder" he had just conquered Yiqu City.

The appearance of the thunder of the sky made all the Hunter cavalry believe that it was God's punishment for Yiqu City to help Li Mu. The people on the grassland were very superstitious. Therefore, after learning that Li Mu was actually protected by the gods, Li Mu naturally became the spokesperson for the gods in their hearts.

Just imagine, how could a Hunter soldier with superstitious thoughts dare to have the courage to oppose the spokesperson of the god whom he is confident in?

Therefore, Li Mu's order was almost immediately implemented to the maximum extent. After this battle, the more than 10,000 cavalry left by the Zhao army almost immediately launched a vigorous search of the entire Yiqu City, loading all the wealth and resources in Yiqu City, and starting a batch of transport to the Zhao land in the north.

In addition, the population of Yiqu City also began to retreat north with these wealth and materials. Although the remaining population in the city was only 30,000 to 40,000, Li Mu did not intend to leave these people to the Qin people. Anyway, Yiqusheng, the "Last King", was there, and Li Mu had some solutions to recover these Yiqu people.

With Yiqusheng's strong cooperation, the entire plundering operation went smoothly and quickly. After only three days, the entire Yiqu City had basically become an empty city.

Almost all valuable items that can be taken away were moved away, and only some things that were left that were really impossible to consign with a vehicle.

But even so, in Yiqusheng's words, this is really a cheaper person in the Qin Dynasty.

To be honest, Yiqucheng is not in a good mood.

After all, for a long time, Yiqusheng's dream has always been to build a magnificent Yiqu King Palace, but now this dream has been ruthlessly shattered by reality. Even Yiqusheng himself has to break and destroy this dream with his own hands. This is obviously something that Yiqusheng is very difficult for him to accept.

Li Mu obviously discovered Yi Qusheng's idea, so when he left, he specially patted Yi Qusheng who had been looking back, and said to Yi Qusheng very seriously: "Don't worry, we will fight back here again in a short time. After we recovered this place, I will present a letter to the king and ask him to enthrone this city as your fiefdom."

Yi Qusheng looked at Li Mu very gratefully and said from the bottom of his heart: "Thank you, Governor."

You should know that generally speaking, it is impossible for surrendered monarchs like Yiqusheng to place their fiefdoms on their original territory. Li Mu was able to make such a guarantee to Yiqusheng, which was actually a big deal.

For a senior official in Zhao State like Li Mu, this kind of favor can actually be said to be very precious.

When Yiqiusheng thought of this, he suddenly felt relieved again.

Yes, he did lose his country and a chance to be king, but now he has become a part of another stronger country and can even get the protection and support of the strongest people in this country.

If that's the case, what else is he unhappy?

Yiqusheng took a deep look at Yiqu City in the sun, then pulled the reins hard, and then drove the horse away.

The Yiqiu Kingdom may be over, but the story of Yiqiu victory is not over yet.
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